Part 656

Gun"ter's scale` (?). A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.

Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in surveying and navigation may be solved, mechanically, by the aid of dividers alone.

Gun"wale (?), n. [Gun + wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.] (Naut.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]

Gurge (g˚rj), n. [L. gurges.] A whirlpool. [Obs.]

The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground.

Milton.

Gurge, v. t. [See Gorge.] To swallow up. [Obs.]

Gur"geons (?), n. pl. [Obs.] See Grudgeons.

Gur"gle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gurgled (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Gurgling (?).] [Cf. It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, fr. L. gurgulio gullet. Cf. Gargle, Gorge.] To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.

Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race.

Young.

Gur"gle, n. The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." W. Thompson.

Gur"glet (?), n. [See Goglet.] A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.

Gur"gling*ly` (?), adv. In a gurgling manner.

Gur"goyle (?), n. See Gargoyle.

Gur"jun (?), n. A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus lÊvis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

Gurl (?), n. A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl. Chaucer.

Gur"let (?), n. (Masonry) A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge. Knight.

Gur"my (?), n. (Mining) A level; a working.

{ Gur"nard (?), Gur"net (?) } n. [OF. gornal, gournal, gornart, perh. akin to F. grogner to grunt; cf. Ir. guirnead gurnard.] (Zoˆl.) One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins. [Written also gournet.]

Plyling gurnard. See under Flying.

Gur"ni*ad (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Gwiniad.

Gur"ry (?), n. An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter. [Obs. or Local] Holland.

Gur"ry`, n. [Hind. garh.] A small fort. [India]

Gurt (g˚rt), n. (Mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. Page.

Gurts (g˚rts), n. pl. [Cf. Grout.] Groats. [Obs.]

Gush (gsh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gushed (gsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Gushing.] [OE. guschen, cf. Icel. gusa and gjsa, also D. gucsen; perh. akin to AS. geÛtan to pour, G. giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. Found to cast.]

1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.